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Awesome new @ThePeelPod episode with @GarrettLord out today. @joinhandshake seemingly came out of nowhere this year in the AI data labeling race. Garrett talks through how they built a Seal Team Six to help the frontier labs, plus the early days of building Handshake's $250m+…
Episode #102: Sleeping in Parking Lots to $250M+ Revenue: The Handshake Story @joinHandshake is Gen Z's career and social network. With more Gen Z users than LinkedIn, it connects over 1 million employers, 1,600 universities, and 18 million students and alumni. This…
"In the age of AI, there's a very material risk of being out executed by your competitors because they're moving so quickly. If you don't have the tooling or infrastructure to move at that pace, you're going to get left behind."
I asked @JustJake how AI is changing backend infrastructure: "The older primitives aren't keeping up. Most people are capitulating out of that older way of building software. Whether they're engineers moving a lot quicker, or new to engineering and trying to build something for…
Venture CFOs reviewing capital calls for accuracy because they haven’t automated them with @hanover_hq yet

Fun and different event format from @PathlightVC and @BananaCap_ at @tryramp A comedy night! @TurnerNovak welcomed everyone with some expense management jokes and then @Kaz_Khadem took a turn we definitely weren't expecting by talking about a Penn classmate of his... 🙈
This is a fun one. Literally... join us tonight for a Summer NYC Comedy Night brought to you by @TurnerNovak, @tryramp, and @NumeralTax. The lineup includes some of NYC's top comedians: Dan Toomey (Morning Brew), Aaron Chen (Netflix), Maddy Smith (Wild 'n Out), and others to be…
Seen in NYC: guy balancing a tire on his head while riding a Citibike
via KKR midyear outlook: how the AI boom compares to the previous two booms (bubbles) kkr.com/content/dam/kk…